Hello everyone,
I'm looking for a 'best practice' for connecting 3 LANs together using the Sophos SG 210.
Here's the scenario:
Site A is connected using Ethernet to Site B which is also connected via Ethernet to Site C. Site A and C are not directly connected however they will need to be able to exchange data through site B.
So, it would look something like this:
A ----- B ----- C
I should mention that each site also has it's own connection to the internet as well so we should draw it more like this:
Internet
/ | \
A --- B --- C
Since the SG 210 has more than enough Ethernet ports in it, I'm planning the following layout:
Site A - 10.1.10.x
eth0 LAN
eth1 WAN
eth2 connection to eth2 at Site B
Site B - 10.1.20.x
eth0 LAN
eth1 WAN
eth2 connection to eth2 at Site A
eth3 connection to eth2 at Site C
Site C - 10.1.30.x
eth0 LAN
eth1 WAN
eth2 connection to eth2 at Site B
So far I think that the first layer makes sense because it is logical and there aren't many other ways to make this happen (other than site-to-site VPNs using the internet connections creating a lot of traffic on an otherwise sleepy internet connection)
Here's my question:
When I configure the interfaces for the site-to-site Ethernet connections (IE: eth2 at Site A), should they be given IPs in a totally different range (say 10.100.100.0/8)?
Another question:
How do I go about building the routes between the sites? I only want the traffic bound for other sites to be passed across the site-to-site links. (IE: 10.1.10.157 at Site A wants to talk to 10.1.30.16 at Site C)
Bonus question:
What needs to be configured to allow the sites to fail-over to the other site's internet connections but use their primary connections by default until the link is unavailable?
NOTE: I have been considering doing this using site-to-site VPN connections but am a little confused about how traffic would route from A to C as well as the overhead created by the encryption.
Thanks for reading and thanks more if you respond!
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